Octavia E. Butler Quotes

Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.

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• Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Work
  • Real
  • Done

• I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • School
  • High
  • Song

• Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • World
  • Down
  • Foot

• When did you last have fun being dignified?

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Fun
  • You
  • Have Fun

• The line between anime and regular animation is very difficult to cross, even for people who have been doing anime successfully for years.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • People
  • Doing
  • Animation

• I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

  

  J. Cole
  • Know
  • Attention
  • Care

• A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money
  • Man
  • Principles

• Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

  

  Edmund H. North
  • Emotional
  • Painful
  • Luxury

• Never put your family, friends, or significant other low on your priority list. Prefer a handful of truly close friends to a hundred acquaintances.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Never

• I am crumbling in sync with old Hackney.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Crumbling
  • Sync
  • Hackney

• I love working and I love doing lots of things and a variety of things. It keeps your mind active... and you don't end up worrying about just the one thing. When I chew things over or analyze too much, that is when I can trip myself up.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Mind
  • End
  • Thing

• I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Say
  • I Can
  • Painful

• Making a donation is the ultimate sign of solidarity. Actions speak louder than words.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Words
  • Speak
  • Donation

• Prince, you never knew what to expect from him from one album to the next. Miles Davis was like that. You know, once you get used to one style, boom, he switched it and, you know, switched gears on you. So those artists are very exciting to me, very exciting to follow their path, you know, and their journey.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Style
  • Path
  • Journey

• Collaboration is no longer painful - or precious.

  

  Vince Clarke Erasure
  • Collaboration
  • Painful

• 'Now you understand,' Rarm said to me. 'It was the last cut against yourself to become convinced of your own hideousness. You held to it and nurtured it, and even identified with the devil goddess of Orash in your determination to be accursed. And it never occurred to you that perhaps you saw a false image under the mountain.'

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Mountain
  • Devil
  • Determination

• Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I'm not just looking to be famous and attach myself to famous names. I want to make history in the business in terms of creativity.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • Business
  • History
  • Famous

• When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.

  

  Rollo May
  • Creativity
  • Creative
  • Innovation

• A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.

  

  Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Thinking
  • Black
  • Interesting

• It was difficult to exercise him properly, because he was so big that even if I ran—and I was for ever running, in my zeal for his welfare,—he still, to keep up with me, needed only to walk, and if I paused for any reason, such as getting my breath or having to tie my shoelace, instantly he lay down.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Running
  • Reason
  • Exercise

• I like to go wakeboarding. It's my new favorite sport. It's like skiing but on a snowboard that has little shoes on it.

  

  Minka Kelly
  • Sports
  • Favorite
  • Skiing

• Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Painful
  • Passage
  • Rite